The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-06-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

"tehoth WOfk.
Tur wedding veil OF n recent Boston
bride cost 5000.
CfHus w. FIELD began life at 3. q wce3.
and now has Se0,0OO,OOO.
TUCSON, AHIz., has six insanity casei
uno to the late earthquake.
A BHooKLYS child has recovered 1900
from a railway for five fingers lost
Another bad marksmau has been max
tnSan attempt on the life OF the Car.
foR the third year In succession the hop
crop Is declared TO be an utter failure.
kansas has nino countfes, each one
larger than the State OF Rhode Island.
RAILROAD is 10 bc built across south
America from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific.
FRRSCnAAS has Invented telephone
which costs but slxty,two and half
cents.
osrRlcn farming is prospcring in Cali
iornia. Good feathers are fetching 800 n
pound.
is the course Of his career as show.
man, bainum says he has taken 100000
''atthc door,
Tnh Mexican government has pensi6ned
mother who towns up" 10 twenty eight
living children,
kANrAs farmers report that the red ants
are waging war Of determination against
the chinch bugs
hEw YoHg has just given out contracts
Tor tln0oO worth Of music in the city parks
for the summer
TIn Car Of Russia allows no one 10
speak 10 him OF his troubles. lie does not
believe In being surfeited.
A stNGLE advertisement for book,
deeper In New York paper brought 10
applications for the position.
konKnT ]. BrRDETrK, the genial humor-
list has been elected deacon In his Baptist
Church. nc Lower Merton, Pa.
AuNr PArsHr Buoo Of BuRg's poh,ofllco
In Southwestern kentucky, is ldS years
old and ia stll able 10 ride horseback
MouNT Hu0oIS0in In Now Hampshire is 10
nave q summer hotel. II ought 70 riva
kiaaifnmce, FLA, as pleasure resort
A rAAK Of ntncty.two acres has been 80.
cured on Tho shore OF Lake Ontario, near
Niagara, for canadian Chaniauqua .
nrE Girard Trust Of Philadelphia has
hcnt cubic block Of anthracite coal "a
the London exhibition, weighing 9,ee1
pounds.
ALUM is now considered the best purifier
of water, making !, perfectly clear aud
sparkling without giving il any alum taste
or smell.
HENRI BiSDEHnAoK. member of the
Greedy Arctic expedition, has been ap
pointed an inspector Of customs at q salary
OF q per day.
QuEENs seem 10 be trumps now. Vieto-
ria il celebrating hcr jubilee year and
Kapiolani has been 70 Boston, eampling
baked bcaus
OsLr that portion OF the male popula.
lion Of Germany which suffers from de-
formity or chronic illness Is exempt from
military duty.
Az awful precedent has been cstab
lishcd in Now York by the arrest OF d
young man for being incorrigibly lazy and
drag ON his father
ToFEKA, KAN, expects 10 have seventeen
miles Of street railway track before the
close OF the year. Dummies viii be run on
some Of the streets
THE Santa caiama mountains In Arisonl
hrc covered with petriiicd turtles, lobster.
hnh ttaAAlHs Ah1 AuuuHtth0a NtN lNtNNI lNtl
above the level OF the sea.
TINS great Lick telescope near San Fran
cisco can not be got ready for use by She
lat Of July, as had boon anticipated, bui
wlll be much behind that time.
CnIoAoo has home for workingwomer
In which lodging is ten cents and breakfast
nve cents. Tho homo is supported BY
ladies from different churches
SEcRErAnr ESpIoorr has decided to dc
away with the practice OF making military
prisoners carry heavy logs for punish
ment. He considers the custom bar
barous.
Mus. GLADSTONE nearly always accom-
panics hor husband 10 tho House OF Com
mons, and she never fails to wrap stout
comforter round his neck when he leaves
for homo.
ARBoR DAT appears far moro than mere
sentiment when we consider that 1t has
already planted over six hundred million
forest trces In States west OF the Missis
sippi rivor.
A PANA Qll) man tied cat in q bag ant
took II 10 Morrisonville, moro than twenty
miles away, aud there released IT, Three
or four days later ho found the cat ut his
door in Pana.
EyERr thing points to a "boom." The
hotel men in New York City say that they
wore never so short in accommodations
for the crowds OF business men who are
there from all parts OF the country.
THERE are only three cities In the world
which have larger Scandinavian popula
tion than Minneapolis. They are Chris
iianla, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Min
neapolis has $1,000 Scandinavians.
SUSANNA MEDoRk SALTER, the new may
or OF Argonia, Kan, is spoilswoman o
the deepost die. She proposes to turn ou
every horrid man in the municipal gov
ernmcut and fill oil tho offices with women
A FRBIoHr-oAR was left at Chppcwi
Falls, Wis, by north-bound train. !
was marked .'perishablo goods.n Whei
the agent opened the door after the de
parturo OF tho train out walked fou
trnmps.
PARisrASs are wearing dress suits mad
in ono piece. The waistcoat has no back
the shirt consists Of front, tho cuffs ar
stitched into tho coat sleeves, and singl
set Of buttons fixes on tho whole cor
triVuuCc.
ANDERSON CR:rcHErT, the celebrate
London surgeon, was recently offered
fee Of s35,0OQ probably the largest med
cal honorarI'm on record-to go TO Ind
10 treat one Of tho native princes Ate
consideration hcdeclincd the offer.
ONE of the Pittsburgh natural gas con
panies, whose plant is said to cost S8OO,0O
-, ;,ror,c from their gas OF ST. ,OO
A CIScINNATI firm has Just been awarde
the contract for supplying the Indians VIII
coats and vests Lo has been triiie shoi
In these garments for some time
A STRANGE coincidence recently occurre
in n adivorce case before Massachuset'
court. The defendant bore the historl
name OF Daniel Webster, stranger
enough the woman who sued for divor'
was Catherine lie Roy, which name WI
a. a.uo,I tvtfo nj tho Qr0f